Shop Vintage Side Chairs at Pamono

Don’t sit on the sidelines and miss all the design action! Come to Pamono and find vintage side chairs (and sets too!) that are perfect just for you. Here you can shop thousands of vintage items from 100 years of design history. And nothing captures the narrative of design history like the evolution of side chairs over the course of the 20th century.

Before launching into that history, it’s worth asking: What exactly is a side chair? While the silhouettes have changed over the decades, some characteristic have remained consistent: By and large, side chairs are slim, rigid, and lightweight—usually with exposed wood, metal, or plastic structures. They can be used as desk chairs, dining chairs, or accent chairs. Strictly speaking, a side chair has no armrests (because otherwise it would be an armchair). But, “live and let live,” we always say. No need to get bogged down in semantics.

Pamono’s collection of vintage side chairs includes some of our favorites designs from the early years of modernism; for example, woven-cane masterpieces produced by Austrian manufacturer Thonet and designed by visionary designers like Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, and Josef Frank. Also from the early 20th century, our shop offers an array of cantilevered marvels, such as the Cesca Chair (1925) by Bauhaus designer Marcel Breuer and the Brno Chair (1930) by less-is-more advocate Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. And we can’t forget to mention the early-modernist side chairs of under-appreciated designer Mart Stam. Oh, and Gerrit Rietveld’sZig Zag Chair (1932-34). Somebody stop me.

But it’s not all about name-dropping here. Design history has shined a spotlight on a chosen few, but there’s a ton of great design work out there by undiscovered and anonymous designers. With this in mind, our vintage side chair collection covers all sorts of styles—from rustic spindle backs to sumptuous silks; from industrial structures to luxurious surfaces. At Pamono, you’ll find thousands of high-quality options. Every object tells a story. Make one yours today. Pamono: Design for a life less ordinary.

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